From mghaught at gmail.com Fri Aug 7 18:31:01 2009 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:31:01 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - August Meeting - Aug 18th Message-ID: <57f29e620908071531s1920431cm7457437d086b15ef@mail.gmail.com> Hey Everyone, Just a quick email about our August meeting. Our monthly meeting will not meet on the usual third Wednesday. Instead, it will be held on Tuesday the 18th at 7pm. Make sure you keep this in mind as you'll miss out if you come on the normal night. This month, Ara Howard will present on Helene, his AWS gem for working with SimpleDB along with S3 and SQS. Check out the group's website if you want any more info. Cheers, Marty Haught @boulderruby http://boulderruby.org From josh at multipart-mixed.com Sun Aug 16 12:54:13 2009 From: josh at multipart-mixed.com (Josh Carter) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:54:13 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] [JOB] Software Engineer at Spectra Logic Message-ID: <98A11BF3-5030-463F-8435-732AF18E91FE@multipart-mixed.com> Hi all, We've got a job opening in our team, and we use a lot of Ruby, so I wanted to make sure any job hunters in the group are aware of it. We're building a new line of disk storage products and we need a kick- butt engineer that can cover stuff from systems-level to Rails. Description is attached. Go here for the post and online application (job 105): http://www.spectralogic.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=career.openings&catID=66&p=57 (Does that URL make you itch? That's a good sign.) Best regards, Josh --cut here-- Do you love the smell of good code in the morning? Do you itch if you haven't solved a tough problem lately? If so, keep reading. Spectra Logic is designing highly-configurable, application-rich storage systems. Our department has a smart, highly motivated team that's one engineer short. Craft your resume to our description and be able to back it up in person. A successful applicant will: * Have 5 + yrs experience as a Software Engineer. * Have solid C or C++ experience. You have to know it cold, this is not a learn-as-you-go position. * Have solid experience beyond C or C++: Ruby, Python, Scala, or another modern language. You will need to master Ruby if you haven't already. * You need to be extremely competent in at least two of these areas, and you should have heard of all of them: * Virtualization * Cluster or cloud computing * iSCSI * CIFS/SMB/NFS * Linux/Unix/Solaris administration * Show proven experience doing things you have not done before. You'll need it. * Communicate well. You will need to express yourself clearly in writing, in person and in your code. * Take constructive criticism well and interact professionally in design and code reviews. * Demonstrate a passion for your career and the quality of your work. It matters to us and it should matter to you. * Be a self-starter and have a can-do attitude. We are defining a new product and you need to be capable of research, invention and development. We will offer you: * A fun, fast-paced working environment. * An opportunity to learn new things and stretch your abilities. * Pay commensurate with experience. A Final Note: We get a rather lot of resumes. The people spamming us have already hit "send." But for you, put the return value of this expression on the top of your resume and you'll go to the top of the pile. def foo @@seed ||= 1 @@seed = 7**5 * @@seed % 128 end [75, -12, 45, 11, 34, 29, 14].map { |c| c + foo }.inject(String.new) { |s,c| s << c } From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Aug 17 18:10:04 2009 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:10:04 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - August Meeting - Aug 18th Reminder Message-ID: <57f29e620908171510p73274d89ia14bc5e86825cb46@mail.gmail.com> It's about time for the monthly Boulder Ruby meeting. This month, as I mentioned earlier, we'll be holding the meeting on the this Tuesday and not our usual Wednesday night. It'll be at 7pm at Collective Intellect's space (directions below). This month, Ara Howard will present on Helene, his AWS gem for working with SimpleDB along with S3 and SQS. We'll start off the meeting with the usual networking/socializing before Ara's presentation. As with tradition, many of us afterwards will hang out at a local pub on the mall. See you there. Cheers, Marty Haught http://boulderruby.org Directions: Collective Intellect 1433 Pearl St, Suite 200 Boulder, CO 80302 The office is behind and above Starbucks on Pearl. The entrance is on Pearl Street just east of Starbucks, behind the statue of the wolf. Come straight through all the doors. URL to google maps: http://rubyurl.com/pKfB From bothari at gmail.com Wed Aug 19 19:35:34 2009 From: bothari at gmail.com (Bothari) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:35:34 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Reputation for Rally Software? Message-ID: Does anyone here have a good/bad opinion of working a Rally? I went to their open house, and it seems like a nice place to work. Just looking for an outside opinion, Joe -- "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ?users?." - Edward Tufte From terry at jeeptech.com Wed Aug 19 22:58:19 2009 From: terry at jeeptech.com (Terry Howe) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:58:19 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Reputation for Rally Software? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Did you see ColoradoBiz this month? They made the cover: http://www.cobizmag.com/images/uploads/covers/cover-08-2009.jpg I've worked at companies that went through the process for those awards and you can't really BS too much with that. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Bothari wrote: > Does anyone here have a good/bad opinion of working a Rally? ?I went > to their open house, and it seems like a nice place to work. > > Just looking for an outside opinion, > Joe > > > -- > "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as > ?users?." - Edward Tufte > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > Bdrg-members at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > -- Terry Howe